Acid (move)

Acid ようかいえき Corrosive Liquid

Battles Type  Poison Category  Special PP  30 (max. 48) Power  40 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Other Side: Affects the opponent's side of the field

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Subtracts four appeal points from the preceding Pokémon.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Acid (Japanese: ようかいえき Corrosive Liquid) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Acid does damage and has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Defense by one stage. Acid will not be able to lower the target's Defense if it has reached a level of -6 or a value of one, or if the target has a Substitute.

In Stadium, Acid has a 20% chance of lowering the target's Defense.

Generation III

Acid will hit both opponents in a Double Battle.

Generation IV

Acid has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Special Defense by one stage.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 38 0024 Arbok Poison 47 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 24 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 28 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 26 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 29 0072 Tentacool Water Poison -- 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 37 0024 Arbok Poison 43 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 23 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 24 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 24 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 19 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 19 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 32 0024 Arbok Poison 38 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 23 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 24 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 24 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 19 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 19 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 15 0346 Cradily Rock Grass -- 15 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 20 0024 Arbok Poison 20 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 9 0044 Gloom Grass Poison -- 9 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 23 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 12 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 12 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 8 0346 Cradily Rock Grass -- 8 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 20 0024 Arbok Poison 20 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 9 0044 Gloom Grass Poison -- 9 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 23 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 12 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 12 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 8 0346 Cradily Rock Grass -- 8 0537 Gamageroge Gamageroge Water Ground 36 0603 Shibibiru Shibibiru Electric 19 0604 Shibirudon Shibirudon Electric -- 0616 Chobomaki Chobomaki Bug 4 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0213 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shuckle
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Chobomaki |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0607 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Hitomoshi | style="background: #FFF" | Hitomoshi
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#E62829" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Shibibiru, Shibirudon

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

File:Ekans Acid.jpg Ekans
The user spits out acid from its mouth.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Ekans spits a black acid from its mouth at the opponent.
Jessie's Ekans	Pokémon Shipwreck		Debut
	Arbok spits a black or purple acid from its mouth at the opponent.
Jessie's Arbok	Pokémon Double Trouble		None
	Gloom fires a ball of violet acid from its mouth at the opponent. It can also fire multiple balls, one after the other.
Multiple wild Gloom	Bucking the Treasure Trend!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Adventures Arbok Acid.png Arbok File:PS057.jpg Ekans
The user spits out acid from its mouth.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Arbok spits out a thick venom from its mouth at the opponent that melts anything it touches.
Koga's Arbok	That Awful Arbok!		Debut
	Ekans spits out a thick venom from its mouth at the opponent that melts anything.
Harry's Ekans	Ekans the Ecstasy		None

In other generations

														File:Acid IV.png.png
Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• Acid has no effect on Template:Type2 Pokémon, despite that real-life acids react very strongly with most metals.
• No Pokémon from Generation IV can legitimately learn Acid.
• Only Pokémon from Generation I gain STAB on Acid.

In other languages

• French: Acide
• German: Säure
• Greek: Οξύ
• Italian: Acido
• Korean: 용해액 Yonghae Aek
• Polish: Trucizna
• Spanish: Ácido
• Serbian: Kiselina

Variations of the move Acid
Acid • Bubble • Ember • Thunder Shock • Powder Snow

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.